Windows 8 Notifications: Programmatic Concepts

In my previous blog post, I provided a high level overview of notifications in Window 8, breaking the functionality down in terms of the user experience (tiles, toast, and badges) and delivery mechanisms (local, scheduled, periodic, and push). This post will look at the common programmatic concepts of the user experience: what you can do with tiles, toast and badges, and how you accomplish that within code. Subsequent blogs posts will focus more deeply on the specific delivery mechanisms.

What is a Notification?

At its very core a notification is simply a bit of information you wish to convey to the user, and it’s the Windows 8 runtime that provides a framework for both how and when the notifications appear. Regardless of the user experience, the structure of a notification is provided via an XML template. There are predefined templates for tile, toast and badge notifications, and every notification must comply with one of these templates.

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